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What Centrelink Benefits may I receive? Australian fulltime student, working casually and moving to rent?
Hey All, I'm 18 & living at "home". Really need to move out. Looked into it before I was 18 but the money I'd have received was ridiculous & I couldn't get straight answers. Now me & a girlfriend plan to rent together, and she was telling me all these benefits she was on & what i could get. Austudy, rent assist, Help?! I am currently only earning less than 200 p/w, but have a better job in mind for when we move closer to the city (sydney). Casual worker. Two full-time TAFE courses, one of which is the HSC. I used to get 300 so we were looking to get a 400 p/w rent place, around about that anyway. I know there are various cut-offs for income. and personal savings? which i have a decent amount of, so they judge liquid assets too? also, health care concessions? transport concessions? anything possible i would be able to receive.

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Is squatting illegal?
There are so many foreclosed homes and abandoned homes yet banks are not giving out loans. People are homeless even with incomes because they are having hard time renting or buying. I have a guy friend who lives in a different state that lives on disablity. He siad he is willing to pay for housing yet no one gives him a chance. I have read so far that it is a civil matter. He is very smart and has even asked owners if he could rent places. Where do I find exact laws on this matter? We have houses for people and people to fill them so why isn't there some sort of squatters movement? I am talking about abandoned and foreclosed homes. My friend gets in trouble for sleeping in parks, shelters are too dangerous they steal his stuff. He wants to remain safe somehow. I think a lot of people may have to start thinking of this. I am trying to help with writing letters to congress for more affordable housing but no one listens. I wish there was a squatter's movement maybe they would finally listen. by the way I told my friend he could live with me but we have no money to get him here. :( Thats ok because he wants to explore a solution to the homeless problem. As soon as one of us gets money he will come live with me renting. if someone is a responsible squatter and fixes the property up like my friend wants to do then it would help the neighborhood. It keeps the bad people out of the houses. I am ok with responsible squatting if a person turns on utlities, does not ruin the property and tries to fix it up. If the owner asks that person to move out they should leave. This may be a line of thinking that people might have to live by soon if jobs keep getting lost, market rent rates go up and less affordable housing. I would rather see squatting that sad empty lifeless homes. my friend worked for a construction company and has his own tools. he packed up or sold his things. He has a van that when parked has been towed while he was sleeping in it. He has woken up in tow lots before. He is very resourceful and knows how to fix a property up himself. update: in 2 months my friend is coming up here he put himself on the pubic housing list. So it is only 2 months that he needs to figure something out. He needs to spend all his money on coming up here. He will stay with one of my family member who has an extra room until he gets the public housing. I think he could squat for two months? He saw a house that needs some minor repairs that is 100% empty. I am not sure if he is going to do this but we all have to do what we have to do.

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Vacancy loss to landlord?
Hi guys.... Does anyone know vacancy loss law in Ohio, US....i.e..if the tenant moves out of an aprtment and the landlord is not able to re-rent place for a couple of months due to the maintenance on the apartment (due damages caused directly or indirectly by the tenant), then will tenant be responsible for the vacancy loss to the landlord?......please let me know....each of ur inputs are very valuable to me..!! but the problem what the landlord says is severe bedbug infestation and it needs 4months treatment...!! also it was after the lease period got over..!!

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could I rent to just college students?
I was thinking of buying a rental property in a "low-rent" neighborhood near a college. college students regularly rent places there. is it legal to exclude all non-college students from being able to rent? or does equal-opportunity mean that you can't evaluate someone based on a factor like that? (basically, renting to only people who you know are upstanding citizens, but just can't afford a nice place. e.g. graduate students)

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is this how life is supposed to be?
I drive an ford focus, live in a $500 a month rent place, work at a crappy job. I just graduated college and everyday I get up go to work come home to an empty apartment with no furniture just a bed and desk and only my internet at $40 a month. I make just enough at my job to cover my living expenses but have no discretionary money. I don't have enough money to date or go out. I feel its only a matter of time before I blow my brains out. Is this how life is supposed to be?

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